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    On Catalina Island, one of LA's unofficial 'food deserts' parties over a humble grocery store

    by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times Jun 10, 2019 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - When 22-year-old Blanca Alvarez comes back home to Catalina after four years at Columbia University in New York, her first planned stop is the island's new supermarket.

    All year, family and friends sent the recent graduate photos, texts and videos from the Vons - treating it the way tourists from the mainland might sunbathing at the Descanso Beach Club or staring at the island's famous buffaloes.

    Located on the edge of downtown Avalon, Catalina's only city, the Vons - not exactly a trendy and hip staple of Southern California's grocer ecosystem - has become an unlikely phenomenon.

    With stunning views and sparkling waters, "The Island of Romance" is not a government-designated "food desert," a term for neglected, poor neighborhoods where affordable and fresh food is hard to find. But for decades, many of the

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